BookBright - Review, Rethink, Rewrite your story one book at the time
Welcome to BookBright, the podcast where personal growth gets real!
We read books that change us, reflect out loud on what hits (and what hurts), and invite you to not just learn, but live what you learn.
Each week, we dive deep into a new chapter from a powerful personal development book. It’s raw, honest, and sometimes uncomfortable, but always real.
You’ll also get the behind-the-scenes of how two curious Swedes decided to aim for conversations with the world’s biggest authors and what happens along the way. The rejections, the surprises, the courage it takes to ask... and the magic when someone says yes!
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Welcome to BookBright!
Marielle & Sofia
📚 Review, Rethink & Rewrite your story — one book at a time.
BookBright - Review, Rethink, Rewrite your story one book at the time
S3E6: The future of money
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In the final chapter of Happy Money, Ken Honda lifts the perspective and asks a bigger question: What role will money actually play in the future and in your life?
We talk about a world in rapid change: technology, AI, climate, global uncertainty and why the biggest shift might not be external, but internal. Ken Honda suggests that money is slowly losing its defining power, much like salt once did. No longer ruling our sense of safety, success, or self-worth.
This conversation moves into abundance vs scarcity, trust vs fear, and why comparison is the game that keeps us stuck. Instead of competing with others, the invitation is to play your own game, set your own rules, define your own version of enough, and measure progress by how far you’ve come, not how far others seem to be ahead.
We also reflect on transparency around money with partners, friends, and especially children and how early conversations can shape healthier money relationships for the next generation.
The episode ends with Ken Honda’s five-step summary of Happy Money, and our honest reflections on what stayed with us, what felt repetitive, and what we wish had gone deeper.
This is not a conclusion that ties everything up neatly.
It’s an invitation to keep practicing.
✨ In this episode, we reflect on:
• The future of money and shifting value systems
• Scarcity vs abundance in uncertain times
• Why comparison keeps us trapped
• Playing your own game — on your terms
• Money, trust, and relationships
• Talking to children about money without fear
• The five core lessons of Happy Money
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👯 Hosts: Sofia Stigendal & Marielle Almquist
🎧 Editing: Elmer Hermansson
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BookBright: Review, Rethink & Rewrite your story – one book at a time!
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